A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
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A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
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A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
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A penny saved is a penny earned.
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A place for everything, everything in its place.
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A small leak can sink a great ship
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Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
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All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
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All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
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All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
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And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?
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And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief,Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
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Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
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Applause waits on success.
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As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
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Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
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Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
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Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
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Beauty and folly are old companions.
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Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
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Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
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Beware the hobby that eats.
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Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
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Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
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Clean your finger before you point at my spots.
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
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Diligence is the mother of good luck.
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Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
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Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
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Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
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Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
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Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
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Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
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For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
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For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
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Games lubricate the body and the mind.
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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
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God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
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Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
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Half a truth is often a great lie.
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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
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He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
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He that can have patience can have what he will.
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He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
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He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
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He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
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He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
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He that rises late must trot all day.
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He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
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He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
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He that's secure is not safe.
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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
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He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
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He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
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Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.
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Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
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Honesty is the best policy.
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How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
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Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
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Hunger is the best pickle.
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I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.
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I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
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I hope... that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.
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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
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I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
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I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.
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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
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If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
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If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
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If it be the design of Providence to extirpate these savages in order to make room for the cultivation of the earth, it seems not improbable that rum may be the appointed means.
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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
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If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
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If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
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If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
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If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
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If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some
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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
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In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
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Industry need not wish.
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It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
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It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
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Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
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Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
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Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.
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Let thy discontents be thy secrets.
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Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
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Lost time is never found again.
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Love and tooth-ache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.
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Lying rides upon debt's back.
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Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so. It is not so. It is so. It is not so.
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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
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Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
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Mine is better than ours.
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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
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Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
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Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
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Necessity never made a good bargain.
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Never confuse motion with action.
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Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
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Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
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Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
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Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it.
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Observe all men, thyself most.
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One today is worth two tomorrows.
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Our necessities never equal our wants.
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Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
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Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
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Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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Remember that credit is money.
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Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
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She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
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Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
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Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.
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Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
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Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
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The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
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The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
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The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
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The discontented man finds no easy chair.
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The doors of wisdom are never shut.
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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
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The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
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The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
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The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
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The learned fool writes nonsense in better language that the unlearned - but it's still nonsense.
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The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.
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The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
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The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
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There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
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There was never a good war or a bad peace.
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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They who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security
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Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.
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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
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Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Three can keep a secret if two are dead.
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Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead
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Time is money.
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To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
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To err is human; to repent, divine; to persist, devilish.
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To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
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Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
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Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes.
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
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We must all hang together or assuredly we will all hang seperately.
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We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
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Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
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Well done is better than well said.
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What has become clear to you since we last met?
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What's a Sun-Dial in the Shade?
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
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When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
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When in doubt, don't.
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When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
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When you're finished changing, you're finished.
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Where liberty is, there is my country.
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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
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Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
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Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
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Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
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Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
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You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
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You may delay, but time will not.
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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.